Documents et rapports
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Lessons for Electric Utilities from COVID-19 Responses in Emerging Markets (anglais)
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting economic shutdown have severely depressed electricity demand across the globe, with acute consequences for the revenues and financial health of utilities...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 154594 Date du document: 1 septembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Apfalter,Stefan,Hommes,Martin,Torres Pereira Mendes,Joaquim Miguel,Toba,Natsuko
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Gender Dimensions of Education Access and Achievement in Sri Lanka (anglais)
Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income country with an impressive record of achievementsin economic and human development. Despite 26 years of conflict, Sri Lanka, an island countrywith a population of 20.6...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 130655 Date du document: 1 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Shojo,Mari,Ebenezer,Roshini Mary
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CPI bias and its implications for poverty reduction in Africa (anglais)
International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes (CPI) to adjust trends in nominal consumption over time for changes in the cost of living. However...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125634 Date du document: 1 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dabalen,Andrew L.,Gaddis,Isis,Nguyen,Nga Thi Viet
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Making recourse work for base-of-the-pyramid financial consumers : Les recours : comment en faire beneficier les consommateurs de produits financiers au bas de la pyramide (français)
This case demonstrates some of the challenges base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers face with the products and providers they use, and how access to effective non-judicial recourse options can help bridge...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88167 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chapman,Megan Swann,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Making recourse work for base-of-the-pyramid financial consumers : Sistemas de recurso eficaces para los consumidores de servicios financieros de la base de la piramide (espagnol)
This case demonstrates some of the challenges base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers face with the products and providers they use, and how access to effective non-judicial recourse options can help bridge...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88167 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chapman,Megan Swann,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Making recourse work for base-of-the-pyramid financial consumers : Les recours : comment en faire bénéficier les consommateurs de produits financiers au bas de la pyramide (anglais)
This case demonstrates some of the challenges base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers face with the products and providers they use, and how access to effective non-judicial recourse options can help bridge...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88167 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chapman,Megan Swann,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Another price of the job creation puzzle : developing the MSME sector in Egypt (anglais)
The Egyptian revolution resulted in key challenges but also opportunities. It has highlighted the need for more jobs, a level playing field, good governance (transparency and accountability), as well as...
Numéro du rapport: 76532 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahmed,Laila Ashraf Abdelkader,Nasr,Sahar Ahmed
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Another piece of the job creation puzzle : developing the MSME sector in Egypt (anglais)
The Egyptian revolution resulted in key challenges but also opportunities. It has highlighted the need for more jobs, a level playing field, good governance (transparency and accountability), as well as...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 80244 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nasr,Sahar Ahmed,Abd, Yara El
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South-South cooperation : how Mongolia learned from Chile on managing a mineral-rich economy (anglais)
Mongolia's mineral-rich economy was hit extremely hard by the global downturn during 2008-9, when copper prices plunged, external demand fell, and growth collapsed. The shock exposed serious underlying...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 72946 Date du document: 1 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Van Den Brink,Rogier J. E.,Sayed,Arshad M.,Barnett, Steve,Aninat,Eduardo U.,Parrado,Eric C.,Hasnain,Zahid,Shaukat Khan,Tehmina
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 90 : membership of South Sudan (anglais)
On December 5, 2011, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number ninety. It was resolved that South Sudan shall be admitted to membership and shall...
Type de document: Rapport aux Administrateurs Numéro du rapport: 82463 Date du document: 5 décembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Guidelines on vehicle overload control in Eastern and Southern Africa : Directives sur le controle de la surcharge des vehicules en Afrique orientale et australe (français)
Heavy goods vehicle overloading is a serious problem across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Such overloading not only significantly accelerates the rate of deterioration of road pavements but, when coupled...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 66935 Date du document: 1 mars 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pinard, Michael lan
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Guidelines on vehicle overload control in Eastern and Southern Africa (anglais)
Heavy goods vehicle overloading is a serious problem across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Such overloading not only significantly accelerates the rate of deterioration of road pavements but, when coupled...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 66935 Date du document: 1 mars 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pinard, Michael lan
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Agricultural distortion patterns since the 1950s : what needs explaining? (anglais)
This paper summarizes a new database that sheds light on the impact of trade-related policy developments over the past half century on distortions to agricultural incentives and thus also to consumer prices...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55950 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Kym,Croser,Johanna Louise,Sandri,Damiano,Valenzuela,Ernesto
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Energy policies and multitopic household surveys : guidelines for questionnaire design in living standards measurement studies (anglais)
Analysis using data on household energy use from Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys can help policymakers to identify which households are affected by energy poverty and then design policies...
Type de document: Étude sur l’énergie Numéro du rapport: 38061 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: O'Sullivan,Kyran,Barnes,Douglas French
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Institutional reform of agricultural research and extension in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
After a period of strong support in the 1960s and 1970s, public funding for research and extension activities in LAC began to wane in the 1980s and 1990s. The strained economic context for many countries...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37047 Date du document: 1 mai 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Roseboom,Johannes,Mcmahon,Matthew A.,Ekanayake,Indira Janaki,John-Abraham,Indu
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Institutional reform of agricultural research and extension in Latin America and the Caribbean : Reforma institucional de la investigacion y extension agricola en America Latina y el Caribe (espagnol)
After a period of strong support in the 1960s and 1970s, public funding for research and extension activities in LAC began to wane in the 1980s and 1990s. The strained economic context for many countries...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37047 Date du document: 1 mai 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Roseboom,Johannes,Mcmahon,Matthew A.,Ekanayake,Indira Janaki,John-Abraham,Indu
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Indigenous knowledge (IK) notes survey (anglais)
The present edition of IK Notes asks the reader to provide feedback, and assess the contribution the publication has made to their related work. The intention is to learn about perceptions of IK Notes...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 36060 Date du document: 1 mars 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rueger,Claudia
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Enquête sur les connaissances autochtones (français)
Dans ce numéro de IK Notes, nous demandons à nos lecteurs de nous donner leurs impressions et, en même temps, d’évaluer la contribution ou l’impact de cette publication dans leur travail. L’intention est...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 36060 Date du document: 1 mars 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rueger,Claudia
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Stimulating the picohydropower market for low-income households in Ecuador (anglais)
The main aim of this World Bank-ESMAP project has been to pave the way for picohydro to become accessible to low-income households in Ecuador, with the view to replicating the process in the Andean region...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 35993 Date du document: 1 décembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: FUENTES, MANUEL A.,Green, John,Rai,Kavita,Taylor, Simon
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Kenya - export prospects and problems (anglais)
This report examines reasons why Kenya and other African trade did not provide the engine of growth that it did elsewhere. During the last quarter century many Sub-Saharan African countries non-oil exports...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 34993 Date du document: 1 octobre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ng,Francis K. T.,Yeats,Alexander James